Payment
How much?
You’ve already used 多少 to ask for a person’s phone number: 你的电话号码是多少？(Nǐ de diànhuà hàomǎ shì duōshǎo?). 多少 can also be used to say How much? or How many? And because 钱 (qián, money) means money, to ask how much something costs, simply say 多少钱？(duōshǎo qián).
这个多少钱？
(Zhège duōshǎo qián?) How much is this?
那个电脑多少钱？
(Nàge diànnǎo duōshǎo qián?) How much is that computer?
Numbers
Let's look at numbers over 100!
For numbers bigger than 100 that end in 11‑19:
315 ‑ 三百一十五 (sānbǎi yīshíwǔ)
412 ‑ 四百一十二 (sìbǎi yīshí'èr)
When a zero is in the middle of a number, we use 零 (líng, zero):
102 ‑ 一百零二 (yìbǎi líng èr)
9,806 ‑ 九千八百零六 (jiǔqiān bābǎi líng liù)
6,070 ‑ 六千零七十 (liùqiān líng qīshí)
Chinese has a special word for ten thousand: 万 (wàn, ten thousand).
10,000 ‑ 一万 (yíwàn)
53,649 ‑ 五万三千六百四十九 (wǔwàn sānqiān liùbǎi sìshíjiǔ)
Final Sounds
Final sounds uang, iang and iong are often spelled differently in the context of other letters. When they begin a syllable or word, uang is spelled wang, iang is spelled yang and iong is spelled yong.
| uang | 起床 qǐchuáng
王 wáng |
| iang | 香港 xiānggǎng
怎么样 zěnme yàng |
| iong | 兄 xiōng (Skill: Family 3)
用 yòng |
Too expensive!
In Chinese, 太 (tài) means very, so, or too. When using 太, we usually add 了 (le) after the adjective.
太贵了！
(Tài guì le!) Too expensive!
太热了！
(Tài rè le!) Too hot!
太好了！
(Tài hǎo le!) Very good!
太可爱了！
(Tài kě'ài le!) So cute!